Mr. Erick Kebeka Omari

Alfa Network (Nairobi, Kenya)

Today’s Date: 15 July 2008

1. What interaction with an animal and/or nature in your life has had the biggest impact on you?

Snake
The impact it had in me I wash swimming in a local stream long time a go, totally naked and then a snake came swimming towards me, head high, men, I jumped out of water and ran away naked, I was so scared, since then I never went swimming in our local stream up to date I don’t know how to swim, just jumping up and down in water and not far from the river bank.

2. Did you have a favorite place in the great outdoors during your childhood?

In my childhood, I liked going to see horse racing in Race course, Nairobi

Now? I like going out to see divers in our local springs (Chania Falls , Fourteen falls)

3. As a former zookeeper, I would love to know what your favorite animal is and why?

Cow, because I love drinking milk, if I had means I could like having milk besides my bed, warm fresh milk and sour milk very sweet, not forgetting beef meat commonly known as nyama choma here in Kenya with Gachumbari (papper, tomatoes onions, avocado paste good for nyama choma)

4. What do you think is the greatest environmental challenge facing us now, and what do you think will be the greatest challenge in the future?

Forest eradication (deforestation), the world and earth as lost it’s natural canopy due to tree cutting, causing erosion, productivity as reduced due to erosion and soil is not fertile, forest used to be water catchments, attracts rain. The greatest challenge in future is starvation, disease and death, due to drought, erosion.

5. If you could give one piece of advice regarding the environment and our natural resources, what would it be?

Environment is life preserve it, and our natural resources is our wealth, let as take care of them.